by Sylvia Deskaj | Aug 21, 2013 | CHI Project Info
My CHI project, Tumulus, which can be found here, is an archive of archaeological data that were collected from previous field seasons in northern Albania. Rather than keeping data hidden away in FileMaker, our efforts are best served, I think, when they are made...
by Sylvia Deskaj | Jan 23, 2013 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
The Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) was held January 3rd – 6th, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. I went to this annual meeting for a variety of reasons: 1) present my preliminary...
by Sylvia Deskaj | Jan 14, 2013 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
Introduction The project that is emerging as a result of my CHI Fellowship is one related to my dissertation research in northern Albania. The tumuli (burial mounds) of northern Albania appeared suddenly on the Shkodër plain around the start of the Bronze Age (ca....
by Sylvia Deskaj | Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is a question that I asked fellow graduate students here in the Department of Anthropology at MSU. The impetus for asking my peers this question occurred as a result of last week’s meeting of CHI Fellows, whereby Donnie Sackey suggested that it would be useful to...
by Sylvia Deskaj | Nov 7, 2012 | CHI Fellowship Program
Hello, world. My name is Sylvia Deskaj, and, as of October 21st of this year, I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of anthropology here at Michigan State University. Yay!!! Now in my fourth year in the department, I am looking forward to working on my CHI project...
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